Neville Goddard on Job 30:8-15 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Job 30 in context

Scripture Focus

8They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

9And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

10They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

11Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

12Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

13They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

14They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

15Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

Job 30:8-15

Biblical Context

Job laments being despised, mocked, and overwhelmed by calamities that threaten his welfare. The passage shows a descent into an inner storm that seems to break his path.

Neville's Inner Vision

In Job 30 the 'they' and the breaking waters are not merely external enemies; they are inner states that have taken on form. When the cords are loosed and the bridle is set before me, the outer scene appears to persecute; yet this is only the old self clashing with the new order of consciousness. The mockery of the youth, the push of feet, the destruction raised against me, are images born from a mind convinced of separation from its source. Your real self—the I AM—is not touched by such shifting scenes. To change the scene you must not persuade the world but revise your state of mind. Assume a different feeling tone now: you are the awareness that witnessed the waters, not the victim of them. When you align with the truth that you are always in God and that God is your life, the storm subsides; the wind ceases to drive your welfare away, and the cloud dissolves into opportunity. This is the art of turning opposition into the suspension of disbelief, revealing that your inner kingdom governs every appearance.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and revise by assuming the I AM is your constant state, unshaken by others' judgments. Feel that revised truth as real, and let the outer storm dissolve into opportunity.